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Kim reveals her struggle with letting go, illustrated by her experience working with a group of foster youth. She connects her own life and admiration for a grandmother who always took care of people with her tendency to be needed, and comes to a place of understanding about the importance of being able to watch youth move on.

In this story, Griffin shares his sense of feeling alone in the world, after being separated from his family and going into care. He describes how he went through a period of not feeling connected to or understood by anyone, and how he “woke up” after losing important people in his life. Griffin now writes for a magazine for current/former foster youth.

Sasha writes a letter to her younger brother, telling him how difficult it was for her to be separated from him when they were placed in foster care. She talks about the problems she had in school, about how much she missed her brother, and about the case worker whose presence helped her stay on track.